Malko Competition

The Malko Competition is an international competition for young conductors. It is held every three years by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, to commemorate its founding conductor, Nicolai Malko.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Lifetime	Nationality	Notes
1965	Ralf Weikert	b. 1940	Austria
1968	Avi Ostrowsky	b. 1939	Israel
1971	Winston Dan Vogel	b. 1943	United States
1974	Gotthard Lienicke
1977	Philip Barry Greenberg		United States	[2]
1980	Maximiano Valdés	b. 1949	Chile	[3]
1983	Claus Peter Flor	b. 1953	East Germany
1986	Kazufumi Yamashita	b. 1961	Japan	[4]
1989	Fabio Mechetti	b. 1957	Brazil	[5]
1992	Jin Wang	b. 1960	Austria
1995	Jan Wagner		Venezuela	[6]
1998	Seikyo Kim	b. 1970	Japan	[7]
2001	Josep Caballé Domenech[note 1]	b. 1973	Spain
2005	Mei-Ann Chen	b. 1973	United States	[8]
2009	Joshua Weilerstein	b. 1987	United States	[9]
2012	Rafael Payare	b. 1980	Venezuela	[10]
2015	Tung-Chieh Chuang	b. 1982	Taiwan	[11]
2018	Ryan Bancroft	b. 1989	United States	[12]
2021	Dmitry Matvienko	b. 1990	Belarus	[13]
2024	Samuel Seungwon Lee	b. 1990	South Korea

Notes

1. No first prize was awarded in 2001, and Caballé-Domenech was appointed the highest (2nd) prize.